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David Hirsh
David Hirsh is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, at Goldsmiths, University of London and Academic Director of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.
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The David Miller ruling risks protecting antisemites
It is one thing to hold that political anti-Zionism, in the abstract, is protected — but quite another to say that Miller’s specific anti-Zionism is protected
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NUS analysis: This powerful report is shocking but comes as no surprise
The independent report is not shocking in the sense of surprising, to anybody who has been paying attention; but it is shocking in the moral and political senses
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Shockingly, I’m not shocked by NUS culture
The sacking of Shaima Dallali is a positive sign. But elsewhere the picture remains bleak
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The Jerusalem Declaration defines the 'community of the good'
By focusing on hypotheticals it ignores what antisemitism is really like
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The Miller defenders' letter
Miller and his defenders are forging an intellectual system which portrays the overwhelming majority of Jews and their community as a cunning, hidden, racist threat to the rest of society, writes David Hirsh
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Labour must expel likes of JVL
David Hirsh says the Labour Party must oppose those who fight for antisemitic politics - including Jewish members
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The ‘Livingstone formula’ is dead
The academic who coined the phrase 'Livingstone formula' on what the EHRC report reveals about Labour antisemitism
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To understand Labour antisemitism, we need the detail and the big picture
David Hirsh says that for many people the detail of the Corbynites' behaviour will be lost - so we need to make sure they understand the wider story
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Dangerous lure of the modern populist parties
Populism threatens our democracy, writes David Hirsh
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Sorry Jewdas, the joke is just not funny any more
After an activist with the controversial left-wing group called Zionism 'a racist ideology' during antisemitism training, David Hirsh writes the group yearns to be radical but is just infantile
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The trashing of Jonathan Sacks is a trashing of all Jews
On antisemitism, Lord Sacks speaks for all but a tiny minority of Jews, says David Hirsh
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Ken Livingstone is being made into a scapegoat
The ex-London Mayor's case reflects the British left's institutional antisemitism, writes David Hirsh.
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We need to teach our kids to think critically about the Israel/Palestine conflict
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Antisemitic politics is the new normal
We don’t know if people just don’t care about antisemitism; or if they don’t know; or they don’t want to know; or they don’t understand
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We need to keep our heads
Save the rhetoric of betrayal for those who genuinely kosherise antisemitic politics, writes David Hirsh.
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Livingstone, Labour and antisemitism
Ken Livingstone has spent his career pushing the view that Zionism and Nazism are effectively the same
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